- 09 Feb 2018 15:20
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I hate the FACTS-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
I've always preferred rhetoric over facts as a way of "proving" an argument. Many people here at pofo have suggested that this means that my methodology is weak. But here are two quotes from two philosophers (one living, the other long gone) that show a marked hesitation to worship or even believe in facts.
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That there are enough facts around "to prove most things" (Saul) shows the process of public relations and adversiting. They sift through a huge pile of "facts," and then carefully select those that confirm their own pre-created narrative.
Do you do this too? Do you scan lots of facts, and then select the ones that confirm what you emotionally believe to be true?
If you do, then you'll never find the truth. You're just trying to justify your emotional feelings about things (opinions) so that you can "win." The truth isn't about winning a competition to prove your emotions are the most rational.
(quotes taken from an article called Truth Decay)
I've always preferred rhetoric over facts as a way of "proving" an argument. Many people here at pofo have suggested that this means that my methodology is weak. But here are two quotes from two philosophers (one living, the other long gone) that show a marked hesitation to worship or even believe in facts.
Diderot wrote:You can divide facts into three types: the divine, the natural and man-made. The first belongs to theology; the second to philosophy and the third to history. All are equally open to question.
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John Ralston Saul wrote:Facts are supposed to make truth out of a proposition. The trouble is that there are enough facts around to prove most things. They have become the comfort and prop of conventional wisdom; the music of rational technocracy; the justification for any sort of policy, particularly as advanced by special-interest groups, expert guilds and other modern corporations. Confused armies of contradictory facts struggle in growing darkness. Support ideological fantasies. Stuff bureaucratic briefing books.
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That there are enough facts around "to prove most things" (Saul) shows the process of public relations and adversiting. They sift through a huge pile of "facts," and then carefully select those that confirm their own pre-created narrative.
Do you do this too? Do you scan lots of facts, and then select the ones that confirm what you emotionally believe to be true?
If you do, then you'll never find the truth. You're just trying to justify your emotional feelings about things (opinions) so that you can "win." The truth isn't about winning a competition to prove your emotions are the most rational.
(quotes taken from an article called Truth Decay)
Judaism, Christianity and Islam - all three accepted and promoted slavery and genocide,
so they will have no problems with human extinction either.
so they will have no problems with human extinction either.